OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to assess the roles of social stress and social status in susceptibility to upper respiratory infection. METHOD Sixty male cynomolgus monkeys were randomly assigned to stable or unstable social conditions for 15 months. Two markers of social status, social rank and percent of behaviors that were submissive, were assessed at independent observation peri...

OBJECTIVE Low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with low-grade inflammation. Vascular inflammation often accompanies high blood pressure (BP) and has clinical implications for future vascular diseases, including atherosclerosis. Elevated plasma levels of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) and endothelin-1 (ET-1) are reliable indicators of vascular inflammation. We examin...

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Abstract In this essay, we review what is known about the role of race and legal status in incorporation immigrants twenty-first-century America. While ethnicity matter social mobility immigrants, racialization not impassable stumbling block critical theory predicts. The research paints a remarkably consistent picture intergenerational socioeconomic progress, one that very similar to happened w...